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dark jazz

Last updated: Tue Oct 28 2025 08:02:02 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Dark jazz is a brooding, atmospheric subgenre that fuses traditional jazz elements with noir aesthetics, downtempo rhythms, and ambient or industrial textures. Emerging in the 1990s, it evokes cinematic soundscapes reminiscent of film noir and psychological thrillers, often incorporating slow tempos, minor keys, and haunting instrumentation. The genre creates an immersive, shadowy mood that appeals to listeners drawn to experimental and melancholic soundscapes.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
36		1990-08-31	Angelo Badalamenti	Soundtrack From Twin Peaks	soundtrack	soundtrack # 59
77		1992	Angelo Badalamenti	Twin Peaks: Season Two Music and More	dark jazz
82		1992-08-10	Angelo Badalamenti	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me	jazz soundtrack dark jazz
25		1994	Bohren & der Club of Gore	Gore Motel	ambient jazz
21		1995	Bohren & der Club of Gore	Midnight Radio
76		1995-03-13	Morphine	Night	blues rock	jazz rock # 67
23		1999	Kammerflimmer Kollektief	Maander	dark jazz noise
68		1999	Kammerflimmer Kollektief	Incommunicado	dark jazz
88		2000-01	Morphine	The Night
96		2000-02-25	Bohren & der Club of Gore	Sunset Mission	jazz ambient	ambient # 9 jazz # 18
8		2000-04-04	The For Carnation	The For Carnation	post-rock slowcore	slowcore # 13
69		2001-03-25	Kammerflimmer Kollektief	Hysteria	dark jazz electronic jazz post-rock
13		2001-09-11	The Real Tuesday Weld	Where Psyche Meets Cupid	cabaret dark jazz
59		2002-10-28	Bohren & der Club of Gore	Black Earth	jazz	dark ambient # 67
92		2003-04-14	Kammerflimmer Kollektief	Cicadidae	dark jazz
38		2004	Microbunny	Dead Stars	dark jazz electronic jazz
62		2005	The Real Tuesday Weld	The Return Of The Clerkenwell Kid	cabaret dark jazz	cabaret # 45
94		2005-05-02	Bohren & der Club of Gore	Geisterfaust	ambient dark jazz jazz
89		2006	Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones	Parole de Navarre	dark jazz
100		2006-05-01	The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble	The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble	dark jazz
3		2007	Marek Zebrowski & David Lynch	Polish Night Music	ambient dark jazz
49		2007-01-15	Somewhere off Jazz Street	Stories from Midnight Streets	jazz dark jazz	modern jazz # 6
48		2007-04-02	Throbbing Gristle	Part Two - The Endless Not	ambient industrial dark jazz deep and dark industrial	deep and dark # 82 ambient industrial # 93
72		2007-05-18	Kammerflimmer Kollektief	Jinx	dark jazz
57		2007-06-05	The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation	Doomjazz Future Corpses!	dark ambient drone ambient dark jazz
4		2008	Somnambulist Quintet	Somnambulist	dark jazz
24		2008	The Real Tuesday Weld	The End Of The World	cabaret dark jazz
63		2008	Swami LatePlate	Doom Jazz	dark jazz
44		2008	Povarovo	Tchernovik
19		2008-08-01	Bohren & der Club of Gore	Midnight Radio (CD 2)
35		2008-09-01	Somewhere off Jazz Street	Road to Somewhere	dark jazz jazz modern jazz	modern jazz # 84
97		2008-10-10	Bohren & der Club of Gore	Dolores	dark jazz jazz ambient	dark ambient # 29
30		2009	The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble	Tribute to Moondog	dark jazz spoken word
91		2009-01	The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble	Mutations EP	dark jazz	illbient # 41
67		2009-04-15	Heroin and Your Veins	Nausea	post-rock
6		2009-05-24	Count Greglache	Crypto-Phantom	8-bit chiptune dark ambient dark jazz drone electronica glitch ritual ambient	ritual ambient # 10 ambient noise # 57
56		2009-06	The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation	Succubus	dark ambient
39		2009-07-27	Somewhere off Jazz Street	Beyond This	dark jazz jazz fusion
99		2009-10-30	The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble	Here Be Dragons	dark jazz ambient
29		2010	Somnambulist Quintet	The Big Sleep	dark jazz
42		2010-02-04	Homestuck	Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead	dark jazz
66		2010-02-26	Kammerflimmer Kollektief	Wildling	dark jazz jazz world
5		2010-03-29	Somewhere off Jazz Street	Whispers of Empty Spaces II	dark jazz jazz fusion
16		2010-03-30	Somewhere off Jazz Street	Whispers of Empty Spaces	dark jazz jazz fusion
95		2011-03-01	The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble	From the Stairwell	dark jazz
41		2011-03-11	Somewhere off Jazz Street	A Quiet Light	dark jazz jazz fusion
9		2011-04-22	Côte Déserte	Dale Cooper's Case	dark jazz
84		2011-07-12	The Real Tuesday Weld	The Last Werewolf	cabaret dark jazz	cabaret # 71
15		2011-08	Splashgirl	Pressure	dark jazz
70		2011-12-16	The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble	I Forsee The Dark Ahead, If I Stay
26		2012-01-17	Hypnobooster	Hypnobooster	dark jazz trip-hop
17		2012-04-06	Kaiti Kink Ensemble	Under the Iron Sky	dark jazz dubstep
31		2012-05-15	Evan Caminiti	Night Dust	ambient dark ambient dark jazz instrumental
22		2013	Splashgirl	Field Day Rituals	dark jazz instrumental
14		2013-02-26	Manet	Dolomiten	dark jazz
64		2013-03-26	The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation	Roadburn	dark jazz
20		2013-05-17	Witxes	A Fabric Of Beliefs	dark ambient dark jazz post-rock
73		2013-05-21	Trigg & Gusset	Legacy of the Witty	dark jazz
61		2013-07-01	Marsen Jules Trio	Présence Acousmatique	dark jazz
7		2013-09-10	Gamardah Fungus	Night Walk With Me	dark ambient dark jazz
40		2013-09-27	Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones	Quatorze Pièces de Menace	dark jazz
33		2013-10	Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones	Quatorze Pieces De Menace	dark jazz
65		2014	Current 93	I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell (A Channel)	dark jazz psychedelic rock
98		2014-01-24	Bohren & der Club of Gore	Piano Nights	dark jazz dark ambient	dark ambient # 79
37		2014-05-05	Триагрутрика	Базирование	ambient dark jazz
80		2015	Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones	Metamanoir	dark jazz
52		2015-02-20	Fogh Depot	Fogh Depot	dark jazz downtempo electronic
79		2015-09-16	Radare	Im Argen	dark jazz jazz post-rock
78		2015-11-09	Trigg & Gusset	Adagio for the Blue	dark jazz jazz
47		2016-04-20	Manet	Dark side of the valley	dark jazz
85		2016-04	Xiu Xiu	Plays the Music of Twin Peaks	dark ambient experimental rock noise rock	noise rock # 48 experimental rock # 69 dark ambient # 91
1		2016-07-01	Neolunar	Neolunar	dark jazz electronica
81		2016-07-15	Lowering	Happiness	dark ambient dark jazz slowcore
34		2016-10-21	Fogh Depot	Turmalinturm	ambient dark jazz downtempo electronic jazz
83		2017-05-20	Manet	Devour	dark jazz
32		2017-06	Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones	Astrild Astrild	ambient dark jazz drone
60		2017-12-12	Wordclock	Heralds	ambient dark ambient dark jazz drone
46		2018-01-15	The Thing With Five Eyes	Noirabesque	dark jazz
75		2018-06-22	Nine Inch Nails	Bad Witch	industrial rock industrial	industrial # 43 industrial rock # 83
55		2018-06-24	Lowering	Brooklyn	dark ambient dark jazz instrumental slowcore
45		2018-06-29	Johnny Jewel	Themes For Television	ambient ambient pop dark ambient dark jazz progressive electronic synthwave
10		2019-03-08	Bong-Ra	Antediluvian	avant-garde jazz dark jazz doom metal drone industrial jazz sludge
54		2019-03-29	Radare	Der Endless Dream	dark jazz jazz post-rock
27		2019-07-28	Jorja Chalmers	Human Again	ambient pop dark ambient dark jazz dreamwave minimal synth space ambient synthpop synthwave	space ambient # 23 dreamwave # 40
2		2019-09-20	White Ward	Love Exchange Failure	blackgaze	blackgaze # 86
93		2020-01-24	Bohren & der Club of Gore	Patchouli Blue	dark jazz
86		2020-03-27	Nine Inch Nails	God Break Down the Door	acid techno art rock dark jazz drill and bass experimental rock industrial rock	acid techno # 83 drill and bass # 94
18		2020-05-01	aging	Sentenced To Love	dark jazz jazz
53		2020-06-26	Junkyard Shaman	Silence, Then Pause
90		2021-03-10	Bohren & der Club of Gore	Bohren For Beginners	ambient dark ambient dark jazz	dark ambient # 44
50		2021-05-28	Jorja Chalmers	Midnight Train	ambient pop art pop avant-pop dark jazz dream pop dreamwave ethereal wave minimal synth synthpop synthwave	minimal synth # 20 ethereal wave # 27 dreamwave # 56 avant-pop # 60
74		2021-10-01	Trigg & Gusset	Black Ocean	dark jazz jazz fusion
12		2022	The Nest	Her True Nature	black metal dark jazz psychedelic rock
51		2022-04-01	Niechęć	[self-titled]	avant-garde jazz dark jazz instrumental jazz fusion polish	avant-garde jazz # 44
28		2022-08-12	Куок	Decadance	dark ambient dark jazz
43		2022-11-01	Dead Melodies	Murken Hollow	dark ambient dark jazz
11		2023-03-10	The Lovecraft Sextet	Black†White	dark jazz
58		2023-10-01	Dated	The Cold Dark Somewhere	dark ambient dark jazz
71			Joel Fausto & Illusion Orchestra	Illusion Orchestra At The Gloomy Club	dark jazz
87			Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Soundtrack)	Twin Peaks (Limited Event Series Soundtrack)	ambient dark ambient dark jazz soundtrack

Related genres

• dark ambient
• ambient
• jazz
• instrumental
• post-rock
• electronic
• soundtrack
• jazz fusion
• electronica
• drone